Andrei Cherny

Andrei
Cherny is CEO of Aspiration, an online financial platform with a conscience
that is founded on the idea that we can do well and do good at the same time.
Aspiration brings to everyone top-rated, sustainable, socially-conscious
banking and investing accounts, trusts it customers to Pay What Is Fair, and
gives ten percent of its revenue to charity. Andrei has worked for nearly
twenty years to make the financial system more open and fair. One of Investment
News’ “40 Under 40” investment professionals, Andrei has been an advisor to
Fortune 100 companies including some of America’s largest financial
institutions, a senior fellow at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government
and at the Center for American Progress, a Navy reserve officer, and a
financial fraud prosecutor. As the co-founder and president of Democracy
journal, Andrei worked with then-law professor Elizabeth Warren to launch the
fight for what became the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. A former White
House aide, President Clinton called Andrei a “critical part of the team” which
brought about the economic successes of the 1990s. His 2000 book, “The Next
Deal,” outlined how technology was transforming the expectations of consumers
and citizens. He is also author of the bestselling, “The Candy Bombers” about
the occupation of Germany and the beginning of the Cold War. He graduated from
Harvard University and from the University of California Berkeley law school.